The only place to be

Tone it down a little.

Another dodgy start but ended up being a very comfortable win. Easier to say who didn't have a particularly good game, and that's Bertrand. Not his fault because it's not his position but he was the weak link in an otherwise great team performance. Lamps had a good game after a dodgy start, Ba did exactly what he was asked to, Azpi continues to impress in defence and attack and Ivanovic came back well from his game against Swansea. Hazard kept up his brilliant form too and what can you say about Jon Walters? But MOTM was Luiz for me. Brilliant performance from the newly shorn defender and he kept us in it during the rocky periods, didn't take any stupid chances and was cool and composed throughout.

We need a Jon Walters option in the MOTM poll.

Phil Dowd's are bigger

TEK A BOO SON

LET WALTERS TAKE IT. HE'S ON A HAT-TRICK!!!!

I'd love him just to spend the next 45 minutes running at Wilkinson

I told you Azpi's crossing is great when he has a specific target to aim for. :blue scalf: :blue scalf: Great work by Lamps earlier on to keep the pressure on and lovely vision by Hazard.

Bertrand isn't a left-winger. Utterly pointless having him on is this match.

Seems to be the flavour of the month.

Everton game all over again. No-one in midfield to hold onto the ball and take control.

Which is what you'd expect from a young player in a new league who has been asked to do different things under different managers.

How many assists? It's his first season and he had a blinding start.

Boro vs Watford McEachran vs Chalobah.

I usually like Dan Levene and find some of his musings and articles to be insightful and thought-provoking but this is just a poor letter. He spends much of it telling us what Frank did do and what he represents to the fans and very little (if any) explaining where he fits into the squad next year. Yes we have an emotional attachment with Lamps, but my emotional attachment to the club is far greater and I think we're better next year with other players filling his position.

I could be wrong, but I never heard it around then. There wasn't a huge amount of antipathy around Blackburn's spending because, well they were Blackburn. It's hard to hate them and Jack Walker was a 'local boy done good'. I actually have a funny feeling it comes from Rafa's apparent comments about the flags, but I could be wrong.

I'm 99% sure that isn't true. I never heard it around that time to be honest and I've always understood it just to mean 'not real'. In those days the United fans were simply called gloryhunters.

Real Madrid and Barcelona maybe....but when did Bayern and Juventus become more attractive options for big players than us??? I also think that's massively unfair on him. He's actually surprised me with how little of a diva he's been. He's reacted well to Benitez wanting him to defend more and he's not sulked when he's been taken off. There's enough potential at this club to keep any young star around for a long time.

It's true though. Luiz has received plenty of credit but people want to see some bias from certain fans when there simply isn't any. It's got NOTHING to do with his nationality (never had a problem with Emerson Thome) and everything to do with the way he plays football. We just want a centre-half who does the basics and doesn't try and run the ball out of defence. In fact, Cahill does the same on occasion but he knows his limitations and doesn't try too much risky stuff. I'l give Luiz a lot of credit for actually hoofing the ball out now far more than he did when he arrived, but he'll still have the odd 'moment' every now and then.

Really? Most people will say that 7 years ago he was one of the best midfielders in the world. 5 years ago he was our most important player. Even last year he played an important role, but we weren't that great last year. Even this year people cite the Everton game as an example of his importance based solely on the fact he scored two goals in that game. Now that's great, but do we want to spend next season playing like we did against Everton? We got lucky in that game. We were completely overrun in the first half-hour by a team with two important players out. Lamps has done well to play in a deeper role but that simply isn't his game. It never has been. That's the reality of the situation with him. He simply doesn't suit our style of football as well as other players might. The position he made his own - IT DOESN"T EXIST. And now his presence isn't going to be a positive one for the rest of the season in my opinion because the atmosphere at the Bridge is fucking toxic. I'm not going to get many likes for saying that it might be better if we sold him before the end of the month.

We outplayed Swansea the other day so if we just do the same thing today but with Ba upfront and cutting out the silly mistakes, then we should be fine. And people saying JT isn't ready or he only played 45 minutes for the u21s - when has that ever stopped him?

I like the idea of committing so much money to a manager. It makes him much harder to sack. The total control thing I'm not so keen on because I actually think that the board have made some good moves in the market, but I assume this is pretty much a bs story anyway. The most exciting thing with him coming in could be having a fresh set of eyes evaluating all of the talent at the club. That can only be good for players like Chalobah, Feruz and McEachran.

See, this might look right from the stats but I remember us playing United 3 times in 93/94 (the season after they won the first EPL) and their starting line-up was something like. Schmeichel Parker Pallister Bruce Irwin Kanchelskis Keane Ince Giggs Hughes Cantona So saying 'you had to win that way' is not true. Who was the next team to win? Blackburn. Sutton, Shearer, Flowers....all big money (for that time and that was around the time Lentini going for £13 million was astronomical). Hansen was wrong. The kids that Fergie bought through (after selling established starters) were high quality, and I think we have some who come close to that. Benat would be better than anyone in our squad?? I remember when we were talking about Fellaini and I seem to recall you (or someone equally enamoured with stats) said that his passing percentage wasn't good enough. What's Benat's? Now we've got Oscar, De Bruyne and McEachran already on the books. You could even throw Chalobah in there if you want. I want to see these young guys that we already own given a chance, especially Josh. You were probably the only one. The poor lad couldn't ever find a shirt small enough to fit, let alone a decent pass against a top team.

Suggs surely. :blue scalf: Damon Albarn as assistant.

Cech Azpi Cahill Ivanovic Luiz Ramires Bertrand McEachran Lukaku Chalobah Moses Hazard Mata Terry and hopefully Cole.